Childhood food pleasures

Also, oxtail soup out of a can, with a dollop of mashed potatoes in it.

It might be dangerous to even type these things out! Mac and cheese with spam, grilled velveeta sandwiches, bologna sandwiches on soft white bread...it's been many, many years and will be many, many more!

Tater Tot Sandwiches. Frozen tater tots heated in microwave, with untoasted white bread, mayo and ketchup. I don't think I could eat one again though

My mom is from the Philippines, so a lot of my tastes are weird things I inherited from her. Spam, either fried crispy in a sandwich, or with a big pile of white rice. Eaten with this Filipino banana ketchup called Mafran. Eggs, scrambled with tomatoes and green onions, with fish sauce. Chocolate rice porridge for breakfast. Any "hard" fresh fruit, like apples, pears, nectarines, diced up and covered with vinegar and lots of salt.

Peanut butter and banana sandwiches. Mmmmm

Peanut butter and strawberry jelly on Ritz crackers

I still love both, but don't eat them that often.

At my house the big thing was creamed corn with cut-up hot dogs. Also candy of the '70s variety that was basically nothing but variously shaped, lightly flavored compressed sugar.

Ugh, I feel queasy now. I swear kids have no taste buds.

My dad used to make this version of shepherd's pie (which actually was nothing like it at all): he'd grill sausages, then cut them up and put them in a casserole dish with a couple of cans of Heinz baked beans, then cover that mix with buttery mashed potatoes and put in the oven for half an hour.

When I was at primary school my mum would often work late nursing shifts on a Friday night, so my dad would pick me up from school, we'd walk to the supermarket (about 4 mile trip from school to the shop to home again, carrying the bags back obviously) and then reward ourselves when we got in with digestive biscuits spread with Nutella with slices of banana on top.

I also liked the times I went to one friend's house for tea because her mum would ALWAYS make turkey dinosaurs, potato smiley faces and spaghetti hoops for tea. That would not fly in my house.

I remember I would always ask my Mom to make me a peanut butter and banana toast! So good!

JPW1990 wrote: »

Larissa_NY wrote: »

At my house the big thing was creamed corn with cut-up hot dogs. Also candy of the '70s variety that was basically nothing but variously shaped, lightly flavored compressed sugar.

Ugh, I feel queasy now. I swear kids have no taste buds.

I remember for a while McDonald's had banana shakes. I thought they were awesome, kid across the street though they were awesome, both our moms thought they were disgusting and couldn't understand why we wanted them. Fast forward until I had a toddler, and got him some of the toddler snacks from the babyfood aisle. One was supposed to be banana flavored, tried it and first thought, "this tastes like McDonald's banana shakes." Second thought, "OMFG this is disgusting." Meanwhile, he was happily eating them with a big smile on his face.

I'm afraid you're wrong. McDonald's banana milkshakes are still available (at least in the UK) and are undeniably the best flavour.

My great grand ma used to make kirnikers which is a dumpling made with flour a tiny bit of salt, an egg and milk, put them in boiling water and when they float they're done. Eat it with just some of the water broth, with salt, pepper and lots of butter. My daughter now wants them sometimes still, don't make them very often. Only the women in the family like them, the men all want them with some meat and gravy.
One weird thing that I don't really crave but remember and can almost smell sometimes, was our closest friends used to get a huge wad of peanut butter in a bowl pour in some pancake syrup ( a lot) start stirring it up and make sandwiches out of it on white bread. We lived next door and we were always back and forth, and they always smelled of that pb syrup.
One of my favorite things, growing up in AZ was my mom making homemade popsickles. There were 4 kids in my family and 4 kids next door so we made a huge batch out of partially koolaid and jello and made lots of neat flavors mixed. I loved the peach, put them in little tiny Dixie cups and put in the popsickle stick and put them in the big freezer and the waiting till they were frozen was torture.

kraft dinner with hotdogs...ewww

Raw hotdogs, sweet bologna with peanut butter rolls, and French Toast covered with syrup.

Hot dog in a squishy white bun with potato chips, Cheez Whiz, and ketchup.

Also McD's banana milkshakes! I forgot about those.

melimomTARDIS wrote: »

mac an cheese mixed with tuna, sour cream, and peas. my dad called it 'poor man's casserole.

Lol I made that as a kid!! I added onions and carrots. My granny told me it was delicious and she loved it when I made that...but why was her portion always in the trash??